MONCKS CORNER, S.C.––Berkeley County sheriff’s detectives have arrested a South Carolina Forestry Commission employee on charges related to a string of suspicious wildfires in northern Berkeley County near the Francis Marion National Forest in January and February.
Brad Chance, 52, a forestry technician who worked for the agency in Berkeley and Charleston counties, was taken into custody Thursday after a joint investigation by SCFC law enforcement and the Berkeley County Sheriff’s Office. He is charged with three counts of willfully burning lands of another.
A resident of St. Stephen, Chance was hired by the Forestry Commission in February 2021. He has been suspended without pay, pending a South Carolina Forestry Commission investigation.
Chance will appear at a bond hearing before a Berkeley County magistrate Friday, March 11.
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